A Trip To Glen Huon

On Friday afternoon about 2-ish we decided to go to Glen Huon for the long weekend. So while Jared was finishing at work I washed and dried all the clothes and got us ready as quickly as possible. I was so glad I'd done the house work that morning and the dishes were all done!
So about half past 3 we got away - only to be stopped at the very same police check as LISA! ONLY our car - unlike Nans - wasn't quite up to scratch - got in trouble for the muffler having a hole and a slightly smooth outer tyre (Jared was CRANKY!) ANYWHO! We luckily didn't get a fine - just a defect notice telling us to repair the problems in two weeks or our rego could be cancelled. There were HEAPS of Police and transport officers there -we even saw Simon Triffitt ( he had on some lovely blue gloves!)

SO we finally got going again (with a pretty cranky husband and Children who had WOKEN grrr and only went to sleep at Hobart!) We got out at Campbell town for them to run around and have some dinner. Then we stopped again at St Peters Pass so by the time we got to mums it was after 9 PM!! nearly 6 hours in the car! The kids were really good as usual though!

On Saturday we went to Salamanca Market - it was Soooooooooooooo HOT and Kels was really quiet and scared the whole time.(No wonder she was scared - this is the view she had most the day!!)

Eamon loved all the people but got sick of being confined to the pram. I found a ten dollar neclace that I loved but may alter - and Jared got some rock candy. That was about all our ourchases though i could have spent hours on my own and hundreds on goodies!



On Sunday we headed after church to Emma and Joels place at sandfly. They have a 20 acre secluded bush block. Their house is right on the edge of a 50m cliff over looking some river.

Emma and Joel

We all went down (Aunty Wendy, Uncle Rob, Zach, Seb, Annie, Em, Joel Tess and Hazel and US) the cliff to the river it has an AMAZING water hole one of the calmest and best i've seen. Emmas girls are so confident and natural in the water.

Our water baby!

Saturday night we all had tea at mums. She made her fabulous Lasagne (sorry all you fab cooks im sure yours is nice but it would never be this good!!!!) I'm slowly trying to do it the same...not there yet!! Lisa and Stan Halle and Archie came as did Jess Tyler James and Amy.

Eamon (13 months) Nana (56!!!) and Archie (7 Months)

Unfortunatley Jarod Liam and Ella were at their nans so Kels was fairly disappointed! Lisa made a choc cake to celebrate mums birthday and the girls loved it singing happy birthday and blowing out the candles!

Being Cheeky climbing Uncles James' fence

Kelsea (3 1/2) and Halle (2)

After The dinner we left the children (one sleeping the other hyper) with their nan and headed to Andrew's and Donna's where Andrew gave Jared a "practice" massage - he was really good and we had a great night! Was so good to go down - and I am slowly warming Jared up to the idea of living there ( it used to be a flat out NEVER!) Would LOVE my kids to grow up in Glen Huon.

Mum can we make a FAIRY cake?

This is a common request from Kelsea. I always say - "oh i need to clean the kitchen first" But she usually persists in asking til during Eamon's sleep we sometimes make one.


HOWEVER our oven is temperamental at the moment - and a cake that takes 50 mins usually in an ordinary oven BURNS after 15 mins.... the bottom was black and some of the top and sides so I had to "trim" it a little to make sure it didn't taste of charcoal.


Kelsea has taken after her mum in that the ICING is her favourite part (it tasted pretty yummy this time round - butter icing is the BEST).


Of course after our attempt tp use the tupperware piping concertina ball to decorate (the icing was too runny) we needed to put in a sparkly candle and light it and sing happy birthday to Kelsea!


Kelsea LOVES to help cook - she even cracked the eggs - saying she wouldn't drop them - and she didn't - hopefully she will end up a better cook than her less-than-gifted mum!!

(Oh by the way can you see the dryer in the back round? WE paid $10 for it at the op shop - almost NEW it had a missing clip on the lint filter - one mans trash is another mans treasure - at least this winter we will have DRY laundry for once!)

He Slept All Night

You good boy Eamon - think we'll keep you now!!

Of course Kelsea still made her regular midnite trip to our room - but by some strange stoke of luck spent the entire night on Jared's arm (usually she wants me) so poor Jared had a rubbish sleep (sorry Jazzy!!) But I was surprised as I still didn't sleep well - going to blame the bed for that!


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Apple Pies and playing with "Mad"

They call each other "Mad" and "Kels" and they both call him "bhud" .

Today Maddi Came to play - Kelsea has been asking everyday to see her cousins - "mum when is Chloe and Maddi coming - they coming today" as soon as she opens he eyes its one of the first things she says - along with Good morning and where's daddy?? (the confusion that comes from having a daddy home for two weeks sick!) the girls got on really well and Eamon wasn't told off by them TOO much :) he just doesn't get the finer art of playing mums, dads and kids.

They ate and played and had a trip to chickenfeed and eventually crashed in front of the TV.


"Mad"

"Kels"

"Bhuddy"

In between all this wonderful play i baked two apple pies. Even macerating the apples before baking (sounds like I'm an accomplished baker hey!!) Wasn't happy with the pastry - rolled it too thin so hope the kids don't mind tonight!! (no pics of these as i don't want to embarrass myself ;)

Thanks for coming to play Maddi hope you guys are still such good friends when your 13!

A Hospital trip and ALMOST sleeping the night through!

Last night about 8 I rang the after hours Doctor as Kelsea's breathing was really fast like she'd been running flat out and she was wheezing aswell. The doc on the phone said to take her into emergency as it could be anything and to hard to tell over the phone. She threw the word Pneumonia in so I was immediately a little worried!! We waited a little while - which was ok for me as BONES was on :) SO after being assessed we waited for over an hour ( she had a temp at this stage too) in the ER when a doctor finally saw us and said she most likely had an infection (Chest or something why is it they never clarify anything at hospital?!?!) that had brought on asthma. SO they gave her ventolin - which she freaked at at first and then by the third time she was a pro! And also some prednisolone (not sure of spelling) to open her airways also antibiotic to take home!! so she is all drugged up! She was so good and actually happy playing lots of make believe games with me - even using the heart monitor clip as a "beeper" for library books and singing (when the nurse wasn't with us). Kels with all her drugs

The other news - put Eamon to bed at bout 7 last night - he slept through til about 3:30 am when I went into him and got him up - i gave him a drink of water - which he turned his nose up at and tried to rock him - but he was blowing raspberries on my arm. I wasn't in the mood after 2 hours of sleep to put up with another hour of that so i said good night put him in bed and shut all the doors. He screamed for i don't know how long as I fell asleep! THis morning I heard him wake just before 8am. Happy and excited to see me. HOWEVER he was BLUE with being COLD!! and his lips are still blue an hour later - even though he is rugged up. Need one of those all over sleeper suits I think!

Corn and Rain

I went to stake training yesterday and was very excited to have Grandpa (Nick) give us some tomatoes and corn on the cob from their garden. I LOVE corn on the cob especially fresh from some ones garden! Kelsea also got so excited and asked "Mumm can I peel it - thats ok mum" Sure I say lets go outside though! She did a great job - with Eamon supervising!







Later that evening it grew dark suddenly and then the rain came hard and fast and Kelsea ran to the screen door and yelled "Boody (Eamon) come see the rain" He ran to see what his big sister saw! She is always so excited to show him the world.

12 months later......(don't fall off your chairs!)

Well I would love to be a regular blogger but it takes me FOREVER to upload pictures and just think of something interesting to write.

Eamon is 13 mths now - and such a boys boy. Its amazing how innately different he and Kelsea are. They were definitely born a sterotypical boy and girl!

Eamon loves : Cars, tools, rough play, tools, breaking things, tools.... oh and did i mention tools? (His eyes literally light up and he gets sooo excited about them) and WATER!

Kelsea loves: Singing, dancing, pretend food, playing mums, singing, dancing, babies, riding bikes, singing.

Here are a few latest pics of them. They are really cute together and usually get along quite well - if Eamon doesn't disrupt Kelsea's play things :)







Pics of the kids in the pool - eamon got in clothes and all he loves swimming. Kels "dinking "him on her trike (by the way she can now ride a two wheeler with training wheels) Eamon's first birthday - lazy mum didn't even make a cake. i was so lethargic and washed out that weekend. Oh well it was so much fun at the beach having a bbq and hanging with mum james Amy and co. They are so much fun and Kelsea cracks us up everyday with her one liners and antics...Eamon is also very funny and adorable :)